Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> > What is the advantage of the VMware modules that come with DL, over
>> > running DL in a VM without the modules?
>>
>> Advantages:
>> Performance (especially the network driver), some better memory
>> management, ability to shut down guest.
>>
>> > Do the included DL VMware modules work with ESX 3.5 and ESX 3i, along
>> > with the free VMware server?
>>
>> Yes they will work on all versions.
>> ESX 3.5 actually supports VMI, which is turned on per default in DL.
>> This
>> should give it a nice performance boost.
>> VMWare Server 2.0 will also support this, but is still in beta (and beta
>> 1
>> doesn't run very good).
>
> Yeah ... I tried VMserver 2 beta at home and had all kinds of problems
> getting it running.  I ended up going back to version one.
>
> It looks like we might be buying ESX at work.  I'm running the
> evaluation now to check it out.  I'm leaning toward 3i.

If you're running newer Linux kernels as VMs, make sure the version
supports VMI. This will help you a lot.

>> > I seem to recall the VM modules are broken in DL 1.3.  Is that still
>> > true?  (the VM modules build just aborted for me)  Anything I can do
>> to
>> > help fix it?
>>
>> No they work now.
>> And we're actually using the opensource version.
>
> root:/data/build# scripts/build.sh  build opt=vmmemctl
> mount: proc already mounted
> mount: none already mounted or /sys busy
> mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
>
> executing vmmemctl with option build (in /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only)
> Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.2/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/.
> modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/data/build/tmp/linux-2.6.24'
>   CC [M]  /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/os.o
> In file included from /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/os.c:39:
> /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning:
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning:
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> In file included from /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/os.c:39:
> /data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types
> for 'poll_initwait'
> include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait'
> was here
> make[2]: *** [/data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only/os.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/data/build/tmp/vmmemctl-only] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/build/tmp/linux-2.6.24'
> make: *** [vmmemctl.ko] Error 2
> ERROR
> /data/build/scripts/vmmemctl build failed
> check log file /data/build/tmp/LOGS/build/vmmemctl for details
> root:/data/build#
>
>
> Help?  :-)

De-Select VMWare and select open-vm-tools in menuconfig. ;-)

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org